Social Security (Administration) Amendment (Continuation of Cashless Welfare) Bill 2020

Summary

Amends the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 to: remove the trial parameters to establish the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) as an ongoing program; establish the Northern Territory and Cape York areas as CDC program areas and transition income management participants in these areas to the CDC program in 2021; remove a current exclusion to enable people in the Bundaberg and Hervey Bay program area to voluntary participate in the CDC program; enable a voluntary participant to continue to volunteer for the CDC even if they no longer reside in a program area; enable the secretary to advise a community body when a person has exited the CDC program; enable the minister to determine decision-making principles for the purposes of determining whether a person can demonstrate reasonable and responsible management of the person's affairs; enable the secretary to review a wellbeing exemption or exit determination in certain circumstances and remove the determination as a result of such a review; enable the secretary to issue and revoke a notice informing a person that they are a CDC program participant; remove the requirement that an evaluation be conducted by an independent expert of a review of the CDC program; and extend the sunset date for income management in Cape York from 30 June 2020 to 31 December 2021.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	08 Oct 2020
Second reading moved	08 Oct 2020
Second reading debate	12 Nov 2020
Second reading debate	02 Dec 2020
Second reading debate	07 Dec 2020
Second reading agreed to	07 Dec 2020
Consideration in detail debate	07 Dec 2020
Third reading agreed to	07 Dec 2020

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	08 Dec 2020
Second reading moved	08 Dec 2020
Second reading debate	08 Dec 2020
Second reading debate	09 Dec 2020
Second reading agreed to	09 Dec 2020
Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 10 Government and 4 Independent (Senator Patrick) agreed to	09 Dec 2020
Third reading agreed to	09 Dec 2020 (After Midnight)

House of Representatives
Consideration of Senate message Details: House agreed to Senate amendments	10 Dec 2020


Finally passed both Houses	10 Dec 2020
Assent Act no: 136 Year: 2020	17 Dec 2020

Documents and transcripts

Text of bill

First reading

As passed by both Houses

Explanatory memoranda

Addendum to explanatory memorandum

Explanatory memorandum

Supplementary explanatory memorandum relating to sheet TK264

Supplementary explanatory memorandum relating to sheet TK265

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

Senate

Government [sheet TK265]

Government [sheet TK264]

Independent [sheet 1171]
PATRICK, Sen Rex

Jacqui Lambie Network [sheet 1173]
LAMBIE, Sen Jacqui

Schedules of amendments

Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate

Bills digest

Bills Digest

Notes

Referred to Committee (08/10/2020): Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee; Committee report (17/11/2020)
Considered by scrutiny committee (11/11/2020): Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills; Scrutiny Digest 17 of 2020
Considered by scrutiny committee (26/11/2020): Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report 1 of 2021
An electronic version of this Act is available on the Federal Register of Legislation (www.legislation.gov.au)

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Text of bill

First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament
Third reading: Prepared if the bill is amended by the house in which it was introduced. This version of the bill is then considered by the second house.
As passed by both houses: Final text of bill agreed to by both the House of Representatives and the Senate which is presented to the Governor-General for assent.

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and provides an explanation of the content of the introduced version (first reading) of the bill.
Supplementary explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains amendments proposed by the government to the bill.
Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.

Proposed amendments

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Schedules of amendments

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